IP Library Granted Patent US 7,249,713
Granted Patent B2
US 7,249,713 · App. 10/901,956 · Granted Jul 31, 2007

Article with two or more bar codes

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Patent No.
US 7,249,713
App. No.
10/901,956
Granted
Jul 31, 2007
Kind
B2
Abstract

A first character string is displayed in the vicinity of a first bar code in a state that the first character string can be readily recognized as a character string represented by the first bar code, and all or a part of the second character string is displayed in a state that it cannot be readily recognized as all or a part of a character string represented by the second bar code. When an article on which two or more bar codes and two or more character strings corresponding thereto are displayed is viewed, a character string to be manually entered can be correctly recognized.

Claims (16)

1. An article on which a first bar code coding a first character string and a second bar code coding a second character string are displayed, wherein the first character string is displayed in a vicinity of the first bar code in a state that the first character string can be readily recognized as a character string represented by the first bar code, and all or a part of the second character string is displayed in a state that it cannot be readily recognized as all or a part of a character string represented by the second bar code.

2. The article according to claim 1 , wherein the first character string is displayed at a position above or below the first bar code.

3. The article according to claim 1 , wherein all or a part of the second character string is not displayed at a position above or below the second bar code.

4. The article according to claim 3 , wherein a part of the second character string is displayed.

5. The article according to any one of claims 3 to 4 , wherein a third bar code coding a third character string is displayed, and the third character string is not displayed.

6. The article according to claim 3 , wherein a third bar code coding a third character string is displayed, and all or a part of the third character string is displayed, and all or a part of the third character string is displayed in a state that it cannot be readily recognized as all or a part of a character string represented by the third bar code.

7. The article according to claim 1 , where in all or a part of the second character string is displayed at a position 10 cm or longer away from the second bar code.

8. The article according to claim 1 , wherein all or a part of the second character string is divided and displayed at two or more sites.

9. The article according to claim 8 , wherein all or a part of the second character string is divided and displayed in two or more lines.

10. The article according to claim 8 , wherein all or a part of the second character string is divided and displayed at two or more sites which are remote from each other.

11. The article according to claim 1 , wherein all or a part of the second character string is displayed with an additional dummy character that cannot be entered when the second character string is entered.

12. The article according to claim 11 , wherein the second character string contains two or more pieces of information, and the dummy character is inserted at a position or positions at which two or more pieces of information are partitioned.

13. The article according to claim 1 , wherein a first label on which the first bar code and the first character string are printed and a second label on which the second bar code is printed are stuck.

14. The article according to claim 13 , wherein all or a part of the second character string is printed on the first label.

15. The article according claim 1 , wherein the article is a light-shielding packaging protection cover containing two or more stacked sheet-like photosensitive materials.

16. The article according to claim 15 , wherein the first label is stuck on one surface of the light-shielding packaging bag, and the second label is stuck on the opposite surface of the bag.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 15, 2007
From: FUJIFILM HOLDINGS CORPORATION (FORMERLY FUJI PHOTO FILM CO., LTD.)
To: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 018904/0001 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 30, 2004
From: ONISHI, KAZUO; ITO, MASAKI
To: FUJI PHOTO FILM CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 016114/0249 →